As reported by U-T San Diego, the onetime Republican assemblyman is the only major candidate in the race not to open his academic record for public inspection.

Heavily redacted documents released under the state public records act by UCSD, as previously reported here, show that he got his degree in 2005, five years after he last attended California Baptist University.

UCSD continues to conceal Fletcher's emailed explanation of the delay.

Verlyn L. Fletcher, Nathan Fletcher's grandfather

In addition, Fletcher told the U-T that he would no longer say he was the first in his family to go to college. As reported here earlier, his father attended college, and his grandfather — a noted city manager and public official in both Nevada and Florida during the 1950s and '60s — held a degree from UC Berkeley.

Meanwhile, the GOP Lincoln Club, of which U-T publisher and real-estate magnate Douglas Manchester is a major backer, shows no signs of slowing down its campaign of hit pieces against Fletcher, now employed as a Qualcomm executive.